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Revista Cubana de Medicina
versión On-line ISSN 1561-302X
Resumen
CORONA MARTINEZ, Luis Alberto y FONSECA HERNANDEZ, Mercedes. Didactic Intervention for Teaching-Learning of the Clinical Method Theoretical Foundations: 20 years of Experience. Rev. Cuban de Med [online]. 2023, vol.62, n.1 Epub 01-Mar-2023. ISSN 1561-302X.
Introduction:
Given the unquestionable importance of the clinical method in health care work, it continues as a core theme in medical teaching.
Objective:
To improve the teaching and learning of the clinical method in higher medical education.
Methods:
There was an initial moment to diagnose the learning state of the clinical method in the local context, followed by the stages for conception, design and implementation of a didactic intervention.
Results:
The implemented didactic intervention is made up of a system of guiding lectures aimed at third-year students of the medical studies, taught in the clinical propaedeutic and internal medicine subjects, which address complex areas of the clinical method teaching-learning: questioning, diagnostic reasoning, and therapeutic decision-making. All the lectures are accompanied by their corresponding teaching support materials. They are part of the intervention, as designed complementary actions aimed at stimulating the participation of professors in the intervention operation, such as training courses, development of a model of medical rounds supporting teaching.
Conclusions:
The described didactic intervention contributed to perfecting the guiding basis of action for teaching and learning the clinical method itself, and most of its constituent essential skills, which is why it contributes to curricular improvement in the studies of medicine. The designed didactic intervention can be applied, or serve as a reference, in any of the higher medical education schools in the country.
Palabras clave : clinical method; professional method; medical assistance; professional skills; clinical teaching.